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    The Thing on the Doorstep (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
    The Thing on the Doorstep (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
    The Thing on the Doorstep (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
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    The Thing on the Doorstep (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss

    By H. P. Lovecraft and George Henry Weiss

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    First published in 1937 in “Weird Tales”, “The Thing on the Doorstep" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. The story revolves around the narrator Daniel Upton recounting the circumstances under which he was forced to kill his friend Edward Derby, who had dabbled too much in the dark arts and given up his body to an evil supernatural force with malign intentions. Part of our “Fantasy and Horror Classics” imprint, “The Thing on the Doorstep" constitutes a must-read for horror lovers and fans of Lovecraft's chilling work. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of supernatural horror fiction. Though his works remained largely unknown and did not furnish him with a decent living, Lovecraft is today considered to be among the most significant writers of supernatural horror fiction of the twentieth century. Other notable works by this author include: “At The Mountains of Madness”, “The Rats in the Walls”, and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Read & Co. is publishing this classic novella now in a new edition with a dedication by George Henry Weiss.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 25, 2013
    ISBN9781447480112
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    H. P. Lovecraft

    Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are ‘At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror’ (1964), ‘Dagon and Other Macabre Tales’ (1965), and ‘The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions’ (1970).

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      The Thing on the Doorstep (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - H. P. Lovecraft

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      THE THING

      ON THE DOORSTEP

      Fantasy & Horror Classics

      By

      H. P. LOVECRAFT

      WITH A

      DEDICATION BY

      GEORGE HENRY WEISS

      First published in 1937

      Copyright © 2020 Fantasy and Horror Classics

      This edition is published by Fantasy and Horror Classics,

      an imprint of Read & Co.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any

      way without the express permission of the publisher in writing.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library.

      Read & Co. is part of Read Books Ltd.

      For more information visit

      www.readandcobooks.co.uk

      To

      Howard Phillips Lovecraft

      Essayist, Poet &

      Master-writer of the Weird

      1890-1937

      He lived—and now is dead beyond all knowing

      Of life and death: the vast and formless scheme

      Behind the face of nature ever showing

      Has swallowed up the dreamer and the dream.

      But brief the hour he had upon the stream

      Of timeless time from past to future flowing

      To lift his sail and catch the luminous gleam

      Of stars that marked his coming and his going

      Before he vanished: yet the brilliant wake

      His passing left is vivid on the tide

      And for the countless centuries will abide:

      The genius that no death can ever take

      Crowns him immortal, though a man has died.

      Francis Flagg

      (George Henry Weiss)

      Contents

      H. P. Lovecraft

      I

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      H. P. Lovecraft

      Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA. Although a sickly boy, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science. At just sixteen he was writing a monthly astronomy column for his local newspaper. However, in 1908, Lovecraft suffered a nervous breakdown and failed to get into university, sparking a period of five years in which he all but vanished.

      In 1913, Lovecraft was invited to join the UAPA (United Amateur Press Association)—a development which re-invigorated his writing. In 1917, he began to focus on fiction, producing such well-known early stories as Dagon and A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson. In 1924, Lovecraft married and moved to New York, but he disliked life there intensely, and struggled to find work. A few years later, penniless and now divorced, he returned to Rhode Island. It was here, during the last decade of his life, that Lovecraft produced the vast majority of his best-known fiction, including The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Thing on the Doorstep and arguably his most famous story, The Call of Cthulhu. Having suffered from cancer of the small intestine for more than a year, Lovecraft died in March of 1937.

      THE THING

      ON THE DOORSTEP

      I

      It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman—madder than the man I shot in his cell at the Arkham Sanatorium. Later some of my readers will weigh each statement, correlate it with the known facts, and ask themselves how I could have believed

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